Laos plane crash: six Australians, including Rhodes family and aid worker Michael Creighton, among dead

The Rhodes family (L-R): Manfred, Phoumalaysy (Lea), Jadesuda and Gavin pictured in Sydney.

Courtesy of the Rhodes family

Six Australians who were among the 49 people killed when a domestic passenger plane crashed into the Mekong River in Laos have been identified.

They include the Rhodes family from Sydney - 39-year-old Gavin, his 35-year-old wife Phoumalaysy, known as Lea, and their two children Jadesuda, 3, and Manfred, 17 months.

Mine disposal expert Michael Creighton, 42, who was working for a Norwegian aid agency in the Laotian capital Vientiane, and his 71-year-old father Gordon, both from Glen Innes in northern New South Wales, were also killed.

Mr Creighton had been a member of the Australian Defence Force and United Nations, and spent 20 years working on aid projects around the world, including in Afghanistan, Iraq, Switzerland, Cambodia and parts of Africa.

He and his fiancée Melanie were residents of Vientiane.

His father Gordon was a retired primary school teacher and had been heavily involved in the sporting communities of Glen Innes.

The Creighton family said in a statement: "We have lost a father, a husband, a son, a brother, a fiancé and a best mate in one tragic circumstance and are trying to come to terms with our loss.